Egypt-Daniel

=Egypt= =Daniel R.= 21/11/12 10-B ==

Background : Africa is located in the Nothern part of Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and the Gaza Strip, also it borders Sudan and the Asian Sinai Peninsula. The capital of Egypt is Cairo. Egypt covers a total of 1,001,450 sq km, its land is about 995,450 sq km and its water about 6,000 sq km. Egypts climate is mostly hot with cool winters during summer and it is a desert. Egypts natural resources are the natural gas, iron, petroleum, limestone, zinc, and much more. This country face a lot of natural disasters such as droughts, earthquakes, floods, sandstorms and landslides.

Male: 25.8 deaths/ 1000 live births Female: 22.59 deaths/1000 live births Male: 70.33 years Female: 75.66 years
 * Population : 83,688,164 (July 2012 est)
 * Birth rate : 24.22 births/1000 population (2012 est)
 * Death rate : 4.8 deaths/1000 population (2012 est)
 * Net Migration rate : -0.2 migrants/1000 population (2012 est)
 * Infant mortality rate : Total: 24.23 deaths/1000 live births
 * Population Growth rate : 1.922% (2012 est)
 * Life Expectancy __:__ Total Population: 72.93 years
 * __ Doubling time __: 36.4 years

Explanation :
 * 1) Egypts population is big compare to its national territory.
 * 2) Egypts birth rate is due to the lack of education which cause to be a lot of people in Egypt
 * 3) The birth rate is in a stable condition due to their health care which decreases the chances of death of the infants
 * 4) There are more people who leave the country to the ones that enter
 * 5) There are good life conditions, good nutrution which decreas the mortality rate of the country.
 * 6) The population growth rate is very small but slowly they are increasing.
 * 7) Egypts life expectancy is bigger compare to other countries.
 * 8) Egypts doubling time will take a lot of years for the population to double itself.


 * Egypt is still in development (LEDC). It growing compare to its neighboring countries.

Population Issues :
 * In Egypt there are 11,000 people living with HIV/AIDS (2009 est)
 * Egypt obesity rate is the 30.3% (2009)
 * Egypt suffers from earthquakes, floods, severe droughts, la[[image:aroundtheworldingeographyclass/_26704_Egypt_population.jpg width="214" height="103" align="right"]]ndslides and more natural disasters.